How do doctors treat severe over-hydration (like the famous water drinking contest)?
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Story time! There once was a young private in the army. On his first deployment overseas, this young private had a sergeant who threatened to kill anyone who got a heat injury. This young private was a bit scared of this somewhat unhinged sergeant and went full bore on his water. Being young and stupid, this young private didn’t know you could *over* hydrate. This young private drank so much water that he flushed electrolytes out of his system (from what he understood). This young private started feeling like absolute camel shit, and a medic came by to fix him up. After telling the medic what happened, said medic left and came back with an MRE. The medic handed the MRE to the young private and said, “Eat all of this.” Listening to the medic, the young private took a bite of what tasted like chicken noodle soup flavored salt. Absolutely disgusting. Medic laughed. Sergeant laughed. Young private hates salt to this day.
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